The Future of Staffing: Virtual Employees



VibrantNation.com is an information website for older women. Its editorial director, Susan Lee Ward, works hard and produces a lot of the content herself. But she doesn't exist. She's a profile under which the other site authors publish. Susan Lee Ward is "a summation of what our members tell us about themselves", so she serves as the embodiment of the site's target market.

Virtual employees could be everywhere on the web, even here. For example, if Alex Santoso, the "owner" of Neatorama, didn't exist -- if he was just a virtual construct -- how would you know?

As workplaces move increasingly online, expect more of this practice.

Article Link and Vibrant Nation Staff Page -via Glenn Reynolds

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Not just online. A company I used to work for had a fake, female employee who would send out overdue/collection letters. All staff were told that if someone called for her, to put them through to the collections department.

The theory was that people were less likely to yell at a female so putting a female name on the bottom of a collection letter would keep them a little calmer.
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Glad to see King James wasn't a bad sport about it. Pro or not, someone that has practised obscure trickshots to the point of perfection are hard to beat by even the most skilled of players.
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"Oh, well if dunking were allowed... " guys. Its HORSE. There's no dunking. Besides, when you're that tall, dunking isn't difficult in the least. You're just putting a ball into a hoop once you jump to meet it.
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Who says you can't dunk in horse? I've never heard such a rule.

And I'm guessing Kalb can't dunk. Which means if James dunked it every time, he would have won. Obviously that wouldn't be fair since Kalb has physical limitations preventing him from dunking.

But yeah, Kalb trained himself to be a pro-HORSE player, and he won pretty easily. Were they to play a game of 1-on-1, I think James would probably win.
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Underhand from the free throw line? Over the backboard? Come on who hasn't done some of those shots? When I was in my 20's I could hit about seven out of ten from half court. Had I challanged a pro and did better at that one task would that have made me a better player? Of course not. Lebron is a phenomenal player but this wasn't his day at this particular event.
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